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    Marugen Ramen adds a soy-braised five-ingredient soba nationwide from 12 November

    Marugen Ramen's 246 Japan stores add a soy-and-oyster-sauce gomoku soba on 12 November 2026, after early sales at seven stores since 29 October.

    12 Nov 2026
    Nationwide from
    ¥930-¥1,090 (plus tax)
    Price
    late Dec 2026
    Runs until

    Monogatari Corporation's chain Marugen Ramen, which runs 246 stores across Japan, is adding two limited-time dishes: "aged soy sauce Marugen gomoku soba" and an ebi (shrimp) version, both a soy-and-oyster-sauce broth topped with a thickened sauce of shrimp, pork, napa cabbage, baby corn and five other ingredients.

    The essentials

    • Early sales: from 29 October 2026 at seven stores: Sendai Nagamachi-minami (Miyagi), Iruma Interchange (Saitama), Nishiarai (Tokyo), Toyokawa and Toyohashi Akebono (Aichi), Takatsuki Karasaki (Osaka) and Dazaifu Osano (Fukuoka)
    • Nationwide: from 12 November 2026, through late December 2026
    • Price: ¥930 (¥1,023 tax included) for the gomoku soba, ¥1,090 (¥1,199 tax included) for the ebi version

    Prices and availability can vary by store. Marugen Ramen's main dish is its aged-soy-sauce nikusoba, cooked to order in a hand pot with pork and finished with yuzu pepper and green onion; the chain also sells shoyu-tonkotsu, salt and miso ramen. See how it compares to other chains in our ramen chains guide.

    Sources

    Details can change at short notice. Check the organiser's or shop's own page before you go.

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